Frances Tiafoe Quotes

Tennis is what I've always wanted to do, so it is my dream to be on top.

It's amazing to go World No. 1 on a win. I think is something I've always wanted to do.

Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.

I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.

Youngsters have got to stop thinking about becoming the next Zuckerberg. It's a trillion-to-one chance. What they need is mater and pater to say, 'Get a job, son.'

I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.

You want to try and win as many slams as possible in your career. As a tennis player, that's what we always dream of as a kid, wanting to play slams, wanting to win them.

My dream was always, when I was a little girl, to be number one and to win grand slams as the number one.

Playing in a main draw Grand Slam is something you dream about as a kid.

Winning a Grand Slam was something I was chasing the first day I became a coach.

It's always been a dream of mine to play professional tennis.

I'm pretty realistic. I cannot wish to be Chris Evert or Martina Navratilova because they won, like, a hundred Grand Slams.

It's easy to become complacent when you are earning decent money as a young player. It's important to understand that there is a lot to achieve, and there is a long way to go before you are where you actually want to be.

Everyone else wants to hear 'I wanna be Top 5,' or 'I want to be winning a Grand Slam.' Those are all goals of mine, but I'm not going to put a time limit on them.

Everton is a really ambitious club and that is what I want.

Of course it's one of my goals to win another grand slam. Wimbledon was great - so if it's Wimbledon again, that's fine - but I think I have the game to win the other grand slams as well.

I want to win titles like Delray and even bigger.

I really believe that I can be the No 1, but for that to happen, I probably need to win a couple of grand slams, and they are not going to fall from the sky.

I don't usually paint a big picture on what I'll do in the future.

I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was....I always wanted to be a movie actor.

I do feel incredibly blessed in my life. I've been given amazing opportunities in my life and even when I'm tired, like right now, I try not to lose sight of all the blessings in my life. I'm enjoying it. It's what I've always dreamed of doing. I don't know if I'll ever get to the point in my life where I feel like 'I've made it'. But right now I'm happy with where things are at and hopefully it will continue to grow.

I believe if you work hard and you dream big enough, you can accomplish anything in this world.

I didn't have a lot of ambition, which I think was a good thing. I mean, I was ambitious about quality, but I wasn't ambitious in the "I've got to get a pilot!" way. I never went out to L.A. for pilot season.

Dr. King used to say, 'I was sitting in the back of the bus, but my mind was always up front.' Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do it. You aim high and you work very hard and now I think it's clear that you can be anything you want to.